Posted Friday, August 1st, 2008 by HLPRonline editorial staff
The Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice: Planning for the Transition to the Next Administration
by LOIS J. SCHIFFER and RICHARD J. LAZARUS
If, as it is often described, the United States Department of Justice is the “nation’s lawyer,” then the Environment and Natural Resources Division within the Department is the “nation’s environmental lawyer.” The Division is the dominant litigator in the federal courts in cases arising under federal pollution control and natural resource management laws. It represents federal agencies in bringing criminal and civil enforcement actions against parties allegedly in violation of federal environmental laws, as well as in cases alleging that federal governmental actors have themselves violated those laws.
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